, 1887-04-14

IN the meantime Senator ingalls, father
made a missionary ont of his other son, Fran
els =. IuglIls, who Is now one of the bright
est prea-hers in Kansas. As to Senator In
gals r.!i zion imagine he is more OF free
thinker than a cast iron Presbyterian He
believes ii the church, however as an educa-
tor, and thinks that baptism and the Sunday
school are as necessary to a Guilds bringing
up as the measles and the whOoping cough
His wife IS an Episcopalian, and the senator
has held each Of his children in his arms at
baptism 80
Senator Ingalls, studied law ct HaverhilI.
Mass, but he saw there was little chance
there for poor young man. He decided to
go west and grow up with the country. He
started for Kansas with so i'll his pocket,
ard be settled at Sumner little town on tie
Missouri river, five miles below Atchisou and
then the only anti-siavery town in Kansas.
Ee was at this time Int little more than Of
ace. He rented an Office, in which his fIrni-
.ure consisted of a chair, a table and only
swO or three books, got board at a hotel hung
ont his shingle and began to practice. Ills
first client was n carpenter, AMI his first fee
was taken out in work For his legal services
the carpenter made him a table and a high
desk. This desk is painted green, its top is
covered with green oii...Cth and IL is kept in
''s INGALLS, family to-dry as one Of is r.
p,ac-7r,s T..,ccs OF Turn urc. S-nator ingalls,
son used IL as a part of lis room furniture
at coil-2e, and the boy prizes it very highly
on account OF lis associations.
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Seaat5r mGails' first days in Kansas were
stormy n.isS pad his adventures at this time
Hou.. iur, Than iill the columns OF this issue
or your paper he was an earnest Free
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lie was el-ctrl . Intw...r OF the Nyundatte
laH--r.s7o, N.s'i a,s.' tha present constitution
os sst shortly alger tli, .,-e;lyu {, man
na.H,i o.. Hos Ir'., .,Is...y champion of
TT dly, l. ii Lj-u a.,rui GiH youth and Oh
saufsy. St.tgryov's Ursu=! was not the most
ss.var-, and ingalls, brought down the house by
TeT,g lHg that youth and oa=c4fity far
preferable to age accompanied q l,- iufany.-'
IH-1'l- a-t pra,tiga in Kansas vas retarded
h~ Iir pro slavery men. Thy refused 10 let him
have G.c,~s t. tAe record, O. tA-r court and he
has - fight for every .u1h OK !.s p-o-rcsS He
eaEly n'ade reIlJ--s.E. as speaker, and II ohe
t,nI- when he vgs billed to max, = speech in
front Of tHg NlsSlspJ a0l~-, in Atci,isGl a party
Of HJUiF Tui.i2Us warned him not to speak.
They had pistols IA their bills and a rope in th-ir
LE1is, amt t!i-r tL-T would hang him il he
carried "uJ ai- Intention Of enauur.u., Them lie
rrF!.r1:
y have an appointment to Peak here. and
an going to meet it,.
lie d.d n:a,-,. t,,s speech, aHd IT is clos. he
roe AWAY ss- Sumner GG s- Jrrir,-;. Il was this
S,inr crowd Uha ;'r"-I ~ = AW ti.gt aft TwGrl
ta.-g8 .tEEr i-.s,u Il The i2g- iiT,iye Butler AMI
!.i El-lI "ta' ..-t l.',r 'r F1tt. '..sig Bible
b. !ii. an ir.J -i'i down r.. 'llSr'liTi as
r.aA Hut!er st:u lives aLi preacae> near Atchi-
sr Old citiz-n of Ears,~ tells me, as IN irstance
OF si.a exciting tiraes q tlis period of s-uascr
Li,.'.i.' h-e- tn-s -i-s.-i-s US sitting one day
Ha.r ..fr.-